Hair net



Patented Dec. 3, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAIR NET Lon J. F. Morins, Lyon, France Application December 19, 1934, Serial No. 758,220 7 Claims. (Cl. 132-49) This invention relates to hair nets and its principal object is to provide a hair net constructed entirely by mechanical means, whereby the only manual work required in the production of the net material is that of attending the loom on which the nets are woven.

Another object is to provide a hair net wherein the ends are devoid of knots. Another object is to provide a hair net having the usual border elastics and chin elastic, wherein said elastics are interwoven with the net material at the ends of each hair net, whereby the use of the ordinarily manually tied knots at the ends of a hair net is avoided.

Hair nets of the present type are woven in a continuouslength of net material, and with the usual present day process, sections of net material of proper length to make hair nets of a given size, are cut from the length of net material, and the ends of each hair net are tied by the workers. This procedure produces knotted ends which are bulky and annoying to the wearers of such nets, especially when worn at night.

In accordance with the present invention, the usual border elastics and chin elastic are tightly 4interwoven with the net material at the ends of each hair net section, upon a lace machine and are left in a smooth knotless condition whereby the hair nets may be worn with comfort.

The principal features of the process are the fastening of the three pieces of elastic at both ends of each hair net and its entirely mechanical adaptation. This results in perfectly formed and sized hair nets and a strong fastening for the elastics without the use of knots.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing accompanying this specification in which the gure is a plan of a fragment of a length of net material as it comes from the loom, illustrating one complete hair net, partly broken away, and a fragment of the next adjacent hair net of the length of material. The figure illustrates the hair net material on a greatly enlarged scale.

Referring to said drawing, the reference character I designates the ground mesh which may be of hexagonal, diamond or other mesh as desired. Adjacent the ends of each hair net section 2, 2a, the meshes are reduced in size to provide very ne meshes 3, either of the same kind of mesh as the ground mesh or of other kinds as is found most desirable. A complete hair net section extends from the line indicated by the reference characters a, a, to the lower end of the gure and includes the ground mesh l, the fine mesh 3 and end strands 4, 4a. In the length of net material, as it comes from the loom, the end strands 4 of one hair net section 2 are continuous as illustrated, and the several sections 5 are severed from the length of net material to provide the individual hair nets by cutting the end strands along the line a, a. The meshes 5 along the side edges of the net material are designated as the border mesh, and loosely woven or 10 threaded through the border meshes at both side edges, and interwoven with the net material at the ends of the hair net sections, are border elastics 6, l, and separate from and unconnected with the ground mesh, is a chin elastic 8, which, 15

however, is interwoven with the net material at the ends of each hair net section. As is well understood, the chin elastic is the one which passes beneath the chin of the wearer when in use. The two border elastics and chin elastic are continuous throughout the entire length oi net material and are tightly secured to the ends of each hair net section without the use of knots as will be presently described.

At the fine mesh 3 of each hair net section the 25 border elastics 6, 1, are interwoven with and extend laterally across the net material as at 9, IU, to a point slightly beyond median line of the length of net material, where they are again extended lengthwise of the material as at ll, l2, 30

the two border elastics crossing each other and crossing the chin elastic 8, as shown. At the places where the three elastics extend along the end strands 4, 4a they are individually interwoven with adjacent strands oi the mesh ma- 35 terial as at I3, I4, I5. Being interwoven with the ne mesh 3 and individually interwoven with the end strands 4, 4e, the three elastics are tightly bound to the net material and cannot be pulled out of the same. three elastics lie in flat planes thereby providing smooth knotless ends for the individual hair nets.

The process of weaving hair nets embodying 45 One bar handles the left side elastic, another The end portions of the 40 bar handles the right hand elastic and the third bar handles the chin elastic.

During the process of weaving the body of the net sections, the two border elastics (right and left) are loosely threaded through the border mesh of the netting (right and left) and the chin elastic comes along the median line of the netting but unconnected therewith. Then, when a predetermined length of netting (according to the size required for the iinished hair net) has been woven, comes the time for fastening the three elastics to the netting and this operation concludes one hair net section and begins an adjacent one.

At this time the border elastic controlling bar for the left border elastic makes its way across towards the right by a number fof" gates'l equal to half the width of the netting plus four gates, and at the same time the right border elastic controlling bar makes its way across to the left the same number of gates, with the result that the two border elastics are carried across each other at the median line of the netting. At the same time the ne meshes are interwoven with those parts of the border elastics. At the same time the bar controlling the chin elastic, which has remained unconnected with the netting, begins its work, and during the length of approximately one and one-half (l1/2) inches, the three,

elastics, at equal distances from each other, are individually tightly fastened with the netting by means of four bobbins, weft, for each one of the elastics. The line a, o in the drawing indicates the place where the netting is subsequently served to provide the individual hair nets.

When the three elastics have thus been fastened as at I2, I3, I4 to the netting, the bars controlling the border elastics are moved in back and the chin elastic controlling bar releases the chin elastic from its attachment to the netting, during which time the ne mesh are again interwoven with the border elastics, and thereafter for a length, strictly calculated, according to the predetermined size of hair net, the ground mesh is woven, the border elastics loosely threaded through the border meshes and the chin elastic carried along unconnected with the netting until the section is completed as before described and another section is started. Thisprocess is repeated indefinitely.

As is understood, lace machines make several lengths of netting simultaneously, each netting being attached to adjacent ones by a cotton thread, called a pull thread, which after the nettings have been dyed is drawn out leaving the separate nettings which are subsequently severed along the lines a, a, to form the individual hair nets.

From the above it is apparent that the knotless hair nets are mechanically produced, and that the manual labor usually required in making hair nets is reduced to a minimum, consequently better hair nets', more perfectly formed can be produced at a lesser cost than has been heretofore done by skilled workers. Y

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: y Y

1. A hair net comprising a'body portion composed oi ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges and line meshes at its ends terminating in lengthwise extending parallel woven end strands, and border elastics threaded through the border meshes, thaend portions of the border elastics extending laterally through the iine meshes at the two ends of the hair net and thence endwise, said end portions ofthe border elastics being interwoven with the ne meshes, and being individually interwoven with adjacent parallel end strands. Y

2. A hair net comprising a body portion composed of ground mesh with border meshes at its 5 two side edges, and line meshes at its ends terminating in lengthwise extending parallel woven end strands, and border elastics threaded through the border meshes, the end portions of the border elastics extending transversely through the fine 10 meshes and crossing each other, vand thence extending endwise, said end portions of the border elastics being interwoven with the nne meshes and being individually interwoven with adjacentv parallel end strands. 15

3. A hair net comprising a body portion composedof ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges, and Iine meshes at its ends terminating in lengthwise extending, parallel woven end strands, and border elastics loosely threaded 20 through theborder meshes, the end portions of the border elastics extending transversely throughthe fine meshes and crossing each other", and thence extending endwise, said end portions of the border elastics being interwoven with the 25 ne meshes and being individually interwoven with adjacent parallel end strands.

4. A hair net comprising a body portion composed of ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges, and fine meshes at its ends terminating in lengthwise extending, parallel woven end strands, border elastics threaded through the border meshes, and a chin elastic unconnected in the body portion, and extending along the median line of the hair net, the end portions of the border elastics extending laterally through the fine meshes at the two ends of the hair net and crossing the chin elastic and being interwoven with the ne meshes and thence extending endwise of the hair net at each side of the end portions of the chin elastic, the: endwise extending extremities of the border elastics and chin Y elasticl being individually interwoven with the adjacent parallel end strands.

5. A hair net comprising a body portion com- 4 posed of ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges, and ne meshes at its ends terminating in lengthwise extending, parallel woven end strands, border elastics loosely threaded through the border meshes, and a chin elastic un- 50,

hair net and crossing the chin elastic and being V interwoven with the line meshes and thence extending endwise of the hair net at each side of the end portions of the chin elastic, the endwise extending extremities of the border elastics and chin elastic being individually interwoven with the adjacent parallel end strands.

6. Hair netvmaterial of indefinite length providing a plurality of hair net sections, each section composed of a body portion comprising ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges, and line meshes at its two ends terminat- Y ing in lengthwise extending, parallel woven end strands'joining the ne meshes of one section with those of the next adjacent section, continuous border elastics threaded through the ing laterally through the ne meshes at one end V of each section crossing the chin elastic and thence lengthwise of the material into the line meshes of the next adjacent section and back laterally to the side edges thereof, the border elastics being interwoven with the fine meshes, and those parts of the border elastics which run from the ne meshes of one section to those of the next adjacent one, and the adjacent parts of the chin elastic being individually interwoven with said parallel end strands.

7. Hair net material of indefinite length providing a plurality of hair net sections, each section composed of a body portion comprising ground mesh with border meshes at its two side edges, and ne meshes, at its two ends terminating in lengthwise extending, parallel woven end strands joining the ne meshes of one section with those of the next adjacent section, continuous border elastics loosely threaded through the border meshes of each section, and a continuous chin elastic unconnected with the body portions of the sections and extending along the median line of the material, the border elastics extending laterally through the iine meshes at one end of each section crossing the chin elastic and thence lengthwise of the material into the line meshes of the next adjacent section and back laterally to the side edges thereof, the border elastics being interwoven with the iines meshes, and those parts of the border elastics which run from the ne meshes of one section to those of the next adjacent one, and the adjacent parts of the said parallel end strands.

LoN J. F. MORINS. 

